Rachelle's 180 gal build

[RandJ]

This upgrade has been salty and I do confess to spending $500 at the LFS on Sunday, but most of the coral came out of my 75 gallon that was already up.

I attached a few more coral pics. The last 2 aren't doing so well. The toadstool seems to be detaching from his rock, and the lobed brain is losing it's color. Those were both in the old tank before.

 

[kurtyboh]

Not only will the pistol defend it likes to eat

 

[RandJ]

Could you be a little more specific Kurt?

 

[RandJ]

As requested the FTS and 3 part scan. Plus 1 of my sailfin tang that got moved from the 75 (yes now I know the 75 wasn't big enough, and he needs 6 ft of swim room).

 

[hackteck]

looks great

 

[Greenmaster]

That's awesome. Thanks.

 

[Henry405]

Very nice tank, great design with the canyon

 

[kurtyboh]

Search youtube for pistol vs cleaner or pistol vs crab. They'll kill other inverts so they have food.

 

[Gti_Leo]

do they kill mantis shrimp

 

[RandJ]

I did a test today for phosphate and it read 2.0 ppm. Any suggestions on how to get this number down?

 

[carey]

Are you using tap water?

 

[Gti_Leo]

waterchanges with RODI water and GFO

there is also the vodka method

 

[RandJ]

I only use RO but not sure what GFO stands for.

 

[Gti_Leo]

granular ferric oxide, its used for removing phosphates and silicates

 

[RandJ]

Is that something I can put in my sump?

 

[Gti_Leo]

you need to put it in a reactor. you can buy two little fishies reactors for pretty cheap

Phosban Reactor

you'll beed to buy a pump for it but a slow rate powerhead like maxijet400 should be fine for it

 

[mwilliams]

Very nice setup.... How much LR and sand do you have in there now?

 

[RandJ]

180 lbs of sand. About 200 lbs of live rock in DT and another 30 in the sump.

Got home from work last night to a diatom explosion so not so pretty right now, but most everything looking good.

 

[Greenmaster]

That will consume most of those...

 

[Purevil21]

I'm following your build, it seems to be going pretty well. I love the aquascaping. I am trying to use you and Greenmaster's builds as a guideline. I am starting a 250 gallon reef build next month.